THEMATIC TABLE OF CONTENTS 1
The Method of Scientific Investigation/T．H．Huxley 1
SCIENCE 1
CONTENTS 1
1．The Method of Scientific Investigation/T．H．Huxley 1
FOREWORD 1
TO THE GRADUATE STUDENT 2
Write to Be Read/John Trimble 9
LANGUAGE 9
2．Write to Be Read/John Trimble 9
The Satisfaction of Life/H．L．Mencken 16
3．The Satisfaction of Life/H．L．Mencken 16
PHILOSOPHY 16
4．The Maker’s Eye：Revising Your Own Manuscripts/Donald M．Murray 22
The Maker’s Eye：Revising Your Own Manuscripts/Donald M．Murrary 22
5．On Being the Right Size/J．B．S．Haldane 29
On Being the Right Size/J．B．S．Haldane 29
6．None of This Is Fair/Richard Rodriguez 37
PORTRAIT OF THE INDIVIDUAL 37
None of This Is Fair/Richard Rodriguez 37
Take This Fish and Look at It/Samuel H．Scudder 44
7．Take This Fish and Look at It/Samuel H．Scudder 44
Grant and Lee：A Study in Contrasts/Bruce Catton 51
8．Grant and Lee：AStudy in Contrasts/Bruce Catton 51
SOCIAL PROBLEMS 59
Farewell，My Unlovely/Caskie Stinnett 59
9．Farewell，My Unlovely/Caskie Stinnett 59
I Have a Dream/Martin Luther King，Jr． 67
10．I Have a Dream/Martin Luther King，Jr． 67
Cystic Fibrosis/Frank Deford 75
11．Cystic Fibrosis/Frank Deford 75
12．The Long Habit/Lewis Thomas 83
The Long Habit/Lewis Thomas 83
13．The Libido for the Ugly/H．L．Mencken 92
The Libido for the Ugly/H．L．Mencken 92
Placebos/Sissela Bok 102
14．Placebos/Sissela Bok 102
15．Introduction to Logic/John C．Sherwood 111
Introduction to Logic/John C．Sherwood 111
THINKING 111
Uncle John’s Farm/Mark Twain 120
16．Uncle John’s Farm/Mark Twain 120
Why I Write/George Orwell 129
17．Why I write/George Orwell 129
18．Exercising the Psyche/Dianne Hales and Robert Hales 138
Exercising the PsycheDianne Hales and Robert Hales 138
19．The Marks of an Educated Man/Alan Simpson 150
The Marks of an Educated ManAlan Simpson 150
EDUCATION 150
20．The Nuclear Winter/Carl Sagan 161
The Nuclear WinterCarl Sagan 161
21．A Nation at Risk /David P．Gardner 172
A Nation at Risk/David P．Gardner 172
22．Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation/Ronald Reagan 184
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation/Ronald Reagan 184
APPENDIX Ⅰ A List of the Related Forms of the Given Words in the Vocabulary Exercises 197
APPENDIX Ⅱ Lists of the Missing Words in the Cloze Task passages in Alphabetical Order 203
GLOSSARY OF RHETORICAL TERMS 205
A LIST OF SOURCES AND WORKS CONSULTED 212